As usual, CNN's Michael Ware paints a stark and depressing picture of the deteriorating security situation in Iraq. He details the never-ending (and escalating) violence and calls it what it is -- a brutal civil war with no end in sight. For all the parsing of the term "civil war", Ware explains exactly why NBC is right in now officially characterizing it as one .

Mr. Boehner, former GOP political operative and current Israeli ambassador Mr. Dermer, and Mr. Netanyahu certainly served their own partisan political interests well (in contrast to that of their governments).

The question is whether Israelis will reelect Mr. Netanyahu's party to head their government after this stunt?